Readily removable ticket



Jan- 6, 1948. M. HElMLlcl-l ET AL A 2,433,949

READILY-"REMOVABLE T I CKET Filed May 5, 1944 Patented Jan. 6, 1948 ,2,433,949 'BEADILY REMOVABLE TICKET Milton Heimlich. Larchmont, N- Y., and Floyd y Ogden, Arlington, Mass.

Application May 3, 1944, Serial No. I533,986

5,.- Claims.

1 Qur present invention relates generally to eer,.- tan. improvements Vin the attachment ci tickets t fabrics or the like, anchas particular refer.- ence to a readilvfremevable ticket ot temporary character.

(Cl. 40e-20) Tickets are attached to fabrics and garments for a variety oi purposes, e, g., to identify the ticketed thing, ortoconvey various kinds of information such as the name of .the maker, the size or quality, the Vprice at which it is tor be sold, and the like. of ticket is that which is used in connection .with commercial garment manufacturing, tickets being attachedto various elements which have been cut from a length of fabric and are intended to be subsequently assembled in the form of -a garnient. In .such case, the purpose of theaticketing is to assure the assembly in ,the ,garment of certain particular elements, to avoid diiculties that might Otherwise arise because of possible shade variations in the cloth from which the elements have been out.

In all of the foregoing instances, and in many others of similar character, vthe ticket is temporary in nature and is intended to be ultimately removed, While the attachment must be rm and reliable Vas long as it lasts, it must also-be of such a nature that removal may be effected easily and expeditiously. In some instances, as in -thecase of shade-marking tickets, the ticket must be ca- One important and Widely used type pable of removal `withunusua1 dispatch, since the workman constructing a garment cannot afford to take too much time or care in the removal of the various tickets after the garment has been assembled.

Generally spealfz-ing, a ticket of the foregoing temporary character, together with its attaching means, must comply not only with the require.- rnent that it be firmly attached yet .readily remov: able, but for practical purposes the ticket and its inode of attachment-must also be very inexperh sive, of such-a nature thatasuccession of tickets may be rapidly and feasibly applied by Iachine, and nonfinjurious to the fabric.` Needless to say, the ticket ymust also be of such a character that the desired identification or other informational matter may be feasihlv imprinted ori it."

It is a general object of our invention to provide imvroved ticket assembly ef. the fret-caving eeri-- erel starteten @emr-lying, tuliy with' these basic. requirementsLand manifesting a number of other advantages. lQur present improved ticketasseme bly is oi unusual simplicity, vity avoids the 'use oi petal and the ensequert te fabricated verlietrY which share metal; peints dif-edges cause, it may be attached readily and inexpensively to a fabric of Yany thickness or character, and it may be expeditiously removed with a minimum of eiort. The present ticket relies for attachment upon a thread or threads of -fleXible character, yet it avoids the necessity for using a sewing machine or otherwise providing a vmultiplicity of stitches for attaching purposes; and in the preferred embodiment `of our invention the threads are completely invisible. l\./ioreove1 f, the present ticket affords an adequate surface fork identification or other markings, and in the preferred embodimentr this surface is entirely flat and clear; the ticket is irreplaceable once it has been removed, thus avoiding unauthorized tampering or substitution; and the ticket is securely held in a flat constantly-visible position upon the fabric. Where unusually rapid and expeditious removal of the ticket is deemed desirable, the present improvement lends itself readily to the achievement of this-result.

A further andparticularly desirable advantage of the present ticket assembly lies in the fact that the ticket and the attaching means form an integral unit which assures simultaneous complete removal of all its parts, By proper design of the parts of which the ticket assembly is formed, this removal may be accomplished in a single manipulation which consists in nothing more than grasping the ticket and jerking it from the fabric to which it isattached. Thus, no pieces of thread, either knotted or unknotted, are left for subsequent painstaking removal, the fabric being entirely clean and devoid of any vestige of the ticket or its attachingthread-or threads, the instant that the removal is efifected. f

We `achieve the -foregoing objects and advanf tages, and such other general objects and. advantages as may hereinafter appear or be pointed out, `in the manner illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure lisa perspective View illustrating the invention inv its simplest form and showing a .l ticket of the present improved character associ?- ,fated with a piece of fabric v Figure Llis a view similar to Figure 3 illuss trating the preferred embodiment of our inven-V tien: s rieure tris a cross-,Setteaelfviev teken .Silb- .stantiallv alone tberlirev O f. Figure 4:

Figure 6 is a diagrammatic view indicating the preferred mode of performing the attaching operation; and

Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 5 illustrating one manner of removal of the ticket assembly.

In its simplest form, the ticket may consist of nothing more than a single layer of sheet material I which is held flat against the surface of a piece of fabric II by means of a exible attaching element I2. The element I2 may be a thread of cotton or other suitable material, and it will be observed that the medial portion forms a loop I3 back of the face of the fabric and as shown on the underside of the fabric (see Figure 2) while the end portions I4 and I5 extend upwardly through the fabric and through the layer I0, assuming positions on the upper face of the latter. In accordance with our invention, a means is provided for bonding at least one of the ends I4, I5 to the layer IU so that this layer and the attaching element I2 form a single inseparable unit. We have illustratively shown how this bonding may be effected by means of a mass of glue or adhesive I6 applied to the upper surface of the layer I8 adjacent to and surrounding the end portion I5 of the attaching element I2.

The element ID may be composed of paper, thin cardboard, or other equivalent inexpensive sheet material, and may have any desired contour, although usually a simple square or rectangular shape is most desirable. The upper face of the element II) is intended to bear the desired markings, for identification or other purposes.

The fact that the attaching element I2 is integrally bonded to the ticket I0 permits the assembly to be removed in its entirety as a single unit. Under certain circumstances this may be done by simply grasping the ticket at any edge portion thereof and jerking it from the fabric. Where only one end portion of the attaching element is secured to the ticket, as in the embodiment of Figures 1 and 2, the removal of the unit from the fabric I I is accompanied by a retractive movement of the unattached end portion I4 through the ticket and the fabric so that ultimately all portions of the element I2 except the bonded end I5 lie on the rear or underside of the ticket.

In Figure 3 we have illustrated a modification in which the attaching element consists of a length of thread doubled upon itself so that one of the end portions is a loop I1 lying on the upper surface of the ticket I8, while the opposite end portion of the attaching element consists of the two adjacent ends I9. In this case, as before, the medial portion of the attaching element forms a loop 20 on the underside of the fabric 2|. Adhesive is employed to secure one or both of the end portions to the upper face of the ticket I8 and in the embodiment of Figure 3 we have shown a mass of glue or the like 22 associated with the looped end portion I1 to bond the latter firmly and securely to the ticket. This forms a unitary assembly of parts whereby, as hereinbefore described, the mere grasping of the ticket, coupled with a jerking movement away from the fabric 2 I, vmay under certain circumstances serve to bring about complete removal of the entire unit.

The preferred embodiment of our invention is illustrated most clearly in Figures 4-7, and it will be observed that we have shown the employment of two superposed layers of sheet material 23 and 24. These layers are adhesively united and a flexway that the medial portion forms a loop 25 on the underside of the fabric 26 while the end portions 21 and 28 extend through the fabric and through the inner layer 23 into sandwiched position between the layers 23 and 24. In this case, as before, one or the other of the end portions 21, 28 is securely bonded to the layers 23, 24 (preferably the looped end portion 21) thus forming a single unit of all the associated elements.

One of the main advantages of the present improvement lies in the simplicity of the operation required to bring about the desired interengagement of ticket, fabric, and thread. It is not necessary to employ a sewing machine of conventional type and mode of operation, nor any equivalent procedure for forming stitches in the ordinary sense of the Word. A simple reciprocating movement of a simple threading element is all that is required. This will be described in connection with the preferred embodiment of Figure 4, although it will beunderstood that the advantages referred to are equally applicable to the other constructions shown.

In assembling the parts of Figure 4, the attaching element is first associated with the fabric 26 and with the inner layer 23, as indicated most clearly in Figure 6. This may be conveniently and efficiently accomplished by threading the attachment element through a needle or equivalent element 29 which has an eye 30 at its forward end, this needle being caused to reciprocate in an axial direction while the plies 2E and 23 are retained in a curved condition, as shown. Alternatively, the needle 29 may be curved, While the plies 28 and 23 are held in substantially flat uncurved condition. In either case, the advancement of the needle first causes a penetration through the layer 23 and the fabric 25 to bring the thread to the underside of the latter, and then causesv a second penetration through the fabric 2B and the layer 23 to bring the looped end of the fastening element to the upper side of the layer 23. This looped end is then grasped by any suitable mechanism, while the needle undergoes a reti-active movement. The thread is then severed by any suitable knife or cutting instrumentality (on the near side of the needle so that the latter remains threaded), as a result of which the fastening element is in the desired relationship to the fabric 25 and the layer 23. The upper layer 24 is then applied, with the aid of adhesive, thus sandwiching the ends 21 and 28 between the two layers 23 and 24.

While reference has heretofore been made t0 the bonding of only one end portion of the attaching element, the preferred practice of our invention involves the simultaneous bonding of both end portions. Thus, in Figures 1 and 2, instead of applying adhesive or equivalent bonding material to only the end portion I5, a similar bond is formed between the end portion I4 and the'ticket I8. Similarly, in Figure 3, instead of applying the adhesive 22 to only the looped end portion I1, a similar bond is formed between the end portion I9 and the ticket I8. In the two-ply construction of Figures 4-7, both end portions 21 and 28 are bonded to the ticket, and this may be accomplished very readily by the single act of adhesively uniting the layers 23 and 24, since the adhesive which holds these two layers together may serve at the same time to bond both end portions 21 and 2B in sandwiched integrally-united relationship to the resultant assembly.

Where both end portions of the attaching element are thus bonded to the ticket, a single ina readily-removable ticket comprising a layer of sheet material, and a, flexible attaching element securing said layer to said fabric, the medial portion offsaid element forming a loop lying beneath the surface of the fabric upon which the layer of sheet material is superposed, While the end portions of said element extend out from said fabric in the direction of and are secured to said layer, said attaching element comprising a length of thread doubled on itself so that one of said end portions comprises a loop, said thread having tensile strength sufficiently 10W to achieve severance thereof by merely jerking said ticket from the fabric.

4. The combination with a, piece of fabric, of .a readily-removable ticket comprising two superposed adhesively united layers of sheet material, and a iiexible attaching element securing said ticket to said fabric, the medial portion of said element forming a loop lying beneath the surface of said fabric upon which the layers of sheet material are superposed while the end portions thereof extend out from said fabric in the direction of and through the inner layer of sheet material into sandwiched secured relation between said layers, said attaching element comprising a length of thread doubled on itself so that one of said end portions comprises a loop, said thread being of a tensile strength suciently low to achieve severance thereof by -merely jerking said ticket from the fabric.

5. The combination with a piece of fabric, of a, readily-removable ticket comprising a layer of sheet material, and a flexible attaching element securing said layer to said fabric, the medial portion of said element forming a loop lying beneath the surface of the fabric, upon which the layer of sheet material is superposed, while the end portions of said element extend out from said fabric in the direction of and are adhesively secured to said layer, said attaching element comprising a length of thread doubled on itself so that one of said end portions comprises a loop and having a tensile strength sufficiently low to achieve severance thereof by merely jerking said ticket from the fabric.

MILTON HEIMLICH. FLOYD H. OGDEN.

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